Roles of Resistance: Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers
About this ebook
In this classroom, no one gets in trouble for defying authority. Designed for educators and facilitators from the union hall to the lecture hall, Roles of Resistance: Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers outlines revolutionary lesson plans on how to fight the power with people power. The thirteen lesson plans in this book created by John-Henry Harter and Mark Leier can be used independently or combined to create a semester-long course. Sections include units on teaching political economy, labour history, and social activism based on democratic, experiential teaching, including role-plays, simulations, and games. The tried and tested classroom activities in this teacher’s guide—successfully applied in high schools, universities, and union classrooms—are bound to create a vibrant learning experience, enriching debates, and providing the main tool we need to change the world: collective action.
About the author
John-Henry Harter is a lecturer in history and labour studies at Simon Fraser University. He is an award-winning teacher whose research and teaching focus on both environmental and labour history as well as pop culture. He has published in both academic journals and popular magazines. He lives with his partner and two dogs on the west coast of what we call Canada. When not teaching or writing he is consuming far too much coffee and reality TV.
Mark Leier teaches in the History Department at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of four books on labour and left history and a biography of the 19th century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. An award-winning teacher, his research focuses on questions of political ideology, organization, resistance, and democratic pedagogy.
